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Speaker 3: What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: H The second round of the NBA Draft just ended,
Speaker 1: which is obviously the best round of the NBA Draft.
Speaker 1: All the stars come out of the second round, you know,
Speaker 1: so we'll we'll discuss that. No, we'll discuss the entire draft.
Speaker 1: I mean, some exciting things about the draft, not so
Speaker 1: much on some other parts, but we'll get into that. MIKEL.
Speaker 1: Bridges trade. A few more things going on around the
Speaker 1: NBA that we will discuss up. But first, the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four NBA Draft has concluded, and the number one
Speaker 1: pick was Zachary risus Chet, second pick in a row
Speaker 1: from France to be well, second number one overall pick
Speaker 1: from France, only the four or five think in history.
Speaker 1: There's that and everybody's like, oh, man, France and Europe
Speaker 1: has taken over the NBA, and they did.
Speaker 3: It did seem that way in that.
Speaker 1: Draft last or last night and today. But might I
Speaker 1: remind you, y'all said, this is the weakest draft in
Speaker 1: recent history. So don't tell me France is taken over
Speaker 1: the NBA. And but because they have so many players
Speaker 1: drafted this year, or that they or you know, international overseas.
Speaker 3: However you want to categorize it.
Speaker 1: Don't tell me that they're taking over the NBA and
Speaker 1: they're far more superior in to the NBA because they
Speaker 1: had a lot of players drafted and what even before
Speaker 1: the draft started was kind of dubbed as the worst
Speaker 1: draft for the last fifteen years. You cannot then say, oh,
Speaker 1: because that draft was dominated by European players or French
Speaker 1: players that they're now superior to and they're taking over
Speaker 1: the NBA. That actually just doesn't make sense to me. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: there is this topic of conversation that the European countries
Speaker 1: are catching up to the Americans, and quite frankly, I
Speaker 1: think you'll see very soon in the Olympics how the
Speaker 1: European countries definitely have put out players Joker Luca. You know,
Speaker 1: as of late, those two uh Wimby, they have put
Speaker 1: out some generational talents as of late, for sure. No
Speaker 1: no debating that, nobody's arguing that. But there's this big
Speaker 1: debate on like Europe taken over the NBA, and I
Speaker 1: just don't agree with that number one. Number one, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure we've still reached the day of where a
Speaker 1: European guy is the face of the NBA, because the
Speaker 1: NBA is an American league, like and I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure we've hopped out hurdle yet. But we will soon see,
Speaker 1: or you all will see, because I know the real
Speaker 1: how America still dominates. Like and by the way, when
Speaker 1: you look at domination, you can't just also look at like, oh,
Speaker 1: this star and that star.
Speaker 3: You have to look at the whole, like the whole
Speaker 3: body of work.
Speaker 1: And if you look at the whole body of work
Speaker 1: of the US players, US born players in the NBA
Speaker 1: right now, the superstars of the NBA, the non superstars
Speaker 1: that are from Europe, and the superstars from America, the
Speaker 1: non superstars from America, it's not even close. The non superstars,
Speaker 1: like the non superstars from Europe and the non superstars
Speaker 1: from America.
Speaker 3: Isn't even close, like actually isn't even discussion.
Speaker 1: So that also plays a part in who's superior and
Speaker 1: all this you get like the talking heads like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the US born players better watch out
Speaker 1: because Luca, like Luca is once in a generation. That's
Speaker 1: why all his stats like line up to the bronze
Speaker 1: this thus far in the career, like he's once in
Speaker 1: a lifetime, for sure, Joker Janni's for sure. But you
Speaker 1: got to go through the whole body of work, and
Speaker 1: so I'm looking forward to that. Please stop with the
Speaker 1: their taking over the league and at the same time
Speaker 1: saying it's the worst draft in recent history, because those
Speaker 1: two things are they don't make sense. If I had
Speaker 1: to say who won the draft, who won the draft
Speaker 1: to me was the Minnesota Timberwills. And the reason the
Speaker 1: Minnesota Timberwills wanted the draft is because they drafted their
Speaker 1: point guard of the future and Rob Dillingham, who I
Speaker 1: think is a very special player who some of those
Speaker 1: teams at the top.
Speaker 3: Of the draft were afraid of.
Speaker 1: Because he got swaged and he got game and they
Speaker 1: don't know if his game is going to fit into
Speaker 1: their systems that don't work and get them fired when
Speaker 1: you can just get a really good player who can
Speaker 1: score the basketball, Steph Curry, and figure out how the
Speaker 1: system works for him. And then all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: the franchise is in territory that it's never been in before.
Speaker 1: But you know, at times we run into these guards
Speaker 1: with swag that they just don't fit in the system,
Speaker 1: and so teams run away from him.
Speaker 3: And there's gonna be some teams.
Speaker 1: That's going to regret passing Rob Dillehan because he's the
Speaker 1: best Paier scorer in that drive. He wants to be
Speaker 1: a great pro. If you talk to the young man
Speaker 1: off the court, great young man, but y'all probably don't
Speaker 1: know that because you just judged by how he bounced
Speaker 1: around cording his game.
Speaker 3: Very smart young man looking for the game, want the game,
Speaker 3: want the knowledge.
Speaker 1: And now he about to go play behind Mike Conley,
Speaker 1: a young Anthony Edwards who he's about to be running
Speaker 1: mace with for the next ten years. And I'm just
Speaker 1: not sure many backcourts going to want to see him,
Speaker 1: and man, good luck so with him. And then Terren
Speaker 1: Shannon Jr. Who had an incredible two years at Illinois
Speaker 1: after leaving Texas at Texas Tech, goes and have an
Speaker 1: incredible career. Illinois falls in the draft because he gets
Speaker 1: lied on.
Speaker 3: Then he falls in the draft. Everybody run away from him.
Speaker 1: Minnesota sitting right there, twenty seven, will take him. Guess
Speaker 1: what beca because the way Minnesota's rosters right now, he
Speaker 1: may help Minnesota next year more than than rob because
Speaker 1: he's a big wing, can shoot the ball, can get downhill,
Speaker 1: get to the free throw line.
Speaker 3: And when he can check.
Speaker 1: And when you got big wings that can check in
Speaker 1: this league, Jaden McDaniels, they play by the way. They
Speaker 1: make a lot of money. So Minnesota won the draft.
Speaker 1: To me, look what they just did after coming off
Speaker 1: of Western Conference finals. Look what they just did. I like,
Speaker 1: gotta get Tim Connelly a lot of credit. He keep
Speaker 1: doing special things. And listen, I'm a tough credit. You
Speaker 1: gotta do special things over and over again for me
Speaker 1: to be like wow. And I've always respected him because
Speaker 1: you see the work he's put in. But he just
Speaker 1: continues to snatch more and more respect, Like, continues to
Speaker 1: snatch more and more respect because what he just did
Speaker 1: in that draft, Like he couldn't have nailed those two
Speaker 1: picks better. So Minnesota won the draft to me, and
Speaker 1: quite frankly, Minnesota didn't need to.
Speaker 3: Win the draft, but they won the draft.
Speaker 1: And that's a team that's poised to try to compete
Speaker 1: for a championship and you gotta respect it. Gotta respect that,
Speaker 1: So shout out to Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I think Zach Edie at number nine was a great
Speaker 3: pick by the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: And the reason I think so is because the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: The Grizzlies need a center. They have to have a center.
Speaker 1: Jaron's not a center. Jaron's a power for it. And
Speaker 1: when you allow Jaron to rome with a great rim
Speaker 1: protector behind him, Jaron is going to be right back
Speaker 1: in the defensive Player of the Year rankings next year
Speaker 1: because he's going to be able to do what he's
Speaker 1: special at get weeks.
Speaker 3: Side blocks, roam around plug.
Speaker 1: And that's going to be great and he don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about being the main rim protector and that's
Speaker 1: going to unlock Jaron defensively.
Speaker 3: Again, Zach. I also think for the Grizzlies it's.
Speaker 1: A low reward, high risk, excuse me, low risk, high
Speaker 1: reward pick. I think it's a very low risk, high
Speaker 1: reward pick because quite frankly, kid, what did he win
Speaker 1: back to back National Player of the Year, Like nobody's
Speaker 1: nobody's judging you for taking him with the knife pick,
Speaker 1: Like nobody's like, oh, you shouldn't have. Like Edie's kind
Speaker 1: of that secret in the drift, or not necessarily secret,
Speaker 1: but he's kind of that unknown I would say in
Speaker 1: the draft of where like you don't know if his
Speaker 1: size is gonna translate, like do he move well enough?
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I think what he does is going to translate.
Speaker 3: But like Biggs in the NBA today, is going back
Speaker 3: to that? Is it not?
Speaker 1: Like? But if it does and you get him any
Speaker 1: pan out, you look great and you paying him young,
Speaker 1: you get four years on a low contract with now
Speaker 1: Jared making the big money and Job making the big
Speaker 1: money and Dasman making the big money.
Speaker 3: So I like that pick a lot. I like that
Speaker 3: pick a lot for the Grizzlies.
Speaker 1: I think he'll be ready to go right now, senior
Speaker 1: play for Matt Pater into Big ten. Physical, gonna be tough,
Speaker 1: gonna know his stuff because when we from the Big ten,
Speaker 1: that's what we do.
Speaker 3: I like to pick.
Speaker 1: I like that pick a lot, and I think that
Speaker 1: pick is going to be huge for the Grizzlies, and
Speaker 1: not many people is talking about it, but like that pick.
Speaker 1: Lakers had a very interesting pick. Uh Dalton connect. I thought, y'all,
Speaker 1: I thought I was gonna say, Bronnie, huh we get
Speaker 1: into that hold your horses.
Speaker 3: I like that kid a lot.
Speaker 1: He's he's a decent athlete, can shoot the ball, got
Speaker 1: great size playing with that size alongside a d and
Speaker 1: bron and can shoot the ball and score the ball the.
Speaker 3: Way he can.
Speaker 1: I think, uh JJ is going to run him off
Speaker 1: screens because that's who JJ was, So JJ is going
Speaker 1: to be looking for that. And I think if he
Speaker 1: can come off screens, which he showed some at UH Tennessee,
Speaker 1: come off screens firing and turned the corner and getting downhill,
Speaker 1: I think that's very beneficial. So I like that pick
Speaker 1: for them, and then that leads us to uh Bronnie, which.
Speaker 3: Number one.
Speaker 1: Congratulations to Bronnie, to bron Vanna, the James game Z Bryce,
Speaker 1: congrats to them. I mean, obviously we all know what
Speaker 1: Bronnie went through a year ago and to be here
Speaker 1: today getting drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers with the
Speaker 1: fifty fifth pick, will be the first ever father son
Speaker 1: duo to play in the NBA. Absolutely incredible to even
Speaker 1: to go through that and make it back from that
Speaker 1: and be within the NBA within the year, like as
Speaker 1: a testament to his drive and work ethic.
Speaker 3: And I actually think.
Speaker 1: Brownie is going to end up being a better pro
Speaker 1: than a lot of these players in this draft because
Speaker 1: has the athleticism, has the basketball IQ, plays the game
Speaker 1: the right way.
Speaker 3: I think he's going to be a good shooter in
Speaker 3: the NBA.
Speaker 1: And I think a lot of people judge Brownie off
Speaker 1: of his production last year at USC, which is a
Speaker 1: little skew because, hey, for anybody coming back in the
Speaker 1: middle of a season and trying to play when everybody's
Speaker 1: in tip top shape is hard to do that as
Speaker 1: a newcomer, as a freshman, as a rookie miss training,
Speaker 1: can miss some of the season and you come in
Speaker 1: it's nearly impossible.
Speaker 3: He did it.
Speaker 1: And I think also when you look at the team
Speaker 1: that he was on, Isaiah Carrier, who's a first round pick, it's.
Speaker 3: A point guard.
Speaker 1: It's marble, a score first point guard getting downhill, and
Speaker 1: Brownie's a point guard playing the two because Isaiah's number
Speaker 1: one pick in the class. That's how these things work.
Speaker 1: Number one, excuse me, number one player in the class
Speaker 1: coming out of high school. So he's going to get
Speaker 1: to the point guard spot and you're going to move
Speaker 1: Brownie off the ball. And in basketball, we always tend
Speaker 1: to think like positions don't matter. But I would love
Speaker 1: to see you take a wide receiver and them at
Speaker 1: offensive tackle, or like take the center and put them
Speaker 1: at quarterback, Like I would love to see you do that.
Speaker 3: But in basketball sometimes were like, oh.
Speaker 1: It don't matter, Like, but if you're a true point
Speaker 1: guard and somebody take you off the ball, it matter, Actually,
Speaker 1: Josh Giddy, Like when you're a true point guard and
Speaker 1: you didn't have to go play off the ball, it's different,
Speaker 1: especially when you don't have a point guard that's feeding you,
Speaker 1: a point guard that or even a point guard that
Speaker 1: plays the point guard position the way you play the
Speaker 1: point And so I think some of that is being overblown,
Speaker 1: like the production at USC, I think people don't look
Speaker 1: at those things that matters. Nonetheless, I'm just gonna take
Speaker 1: the bet that this kid works hard, which he does.
Speaker 1: He has Lebron James DNA and I'm gonna take the
Speaker 1: bet on that, like it it makes sense. And then
Speaker 1: you watch him playing, he's a good basketball player. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take that bet because, a you got him at
Speaker 1: fifty five, so if he even becomes a rotational player,
Speaker 1: you did great. And I think he could possibly become
Speaker 1: a rotational player in the next two years. So shout
Speaker 1: out to Brownie, shout out to the James game. Absolutely
Speaker 1: incredible to see him drafted, happiest hell for him.
Speaker 3: For them to see that, like, it's nuts.
Speaker 1: I remember when bron first said it three four years ago,
Speaker 1: like I want to play with You're.
Speaker 3: Like, man, what, like you ain't gonna be playing?
Speaker 1: Like yeah, they did it, So shout out to them, Man,
Speaker 1: that's super dope. Next trade, Mike kel Bridges to the
Speaker 1: Knicks for five first round picks, five first rounders plus
Speaker 1: pick swaps. I was a little shocked. I was shocked
Speaker 1: because it's crazy. When so when Mike kel got traded
Speaker 1: to the Nets from Phoenix, everybody kind of knew the
Speaker 1: Nets would at some point going to this rebuild that
Speaker 1: they just went into, and so everybody was kind of
Speaker 1: talking about what they would trade for Mike l Bridges
Speaker 1: and you are here like four first round picks. Five
Speaker 1: first round picks would be like the cost of the trade.
Speaker 1: And then the Rudy go Bear trade happened. And when
Speaker 1: the Rudy go Bear trade happened, initially in the first
Speaker 1: year of it, it didn't look like it was working.
Speaker 1: And everybody gives up on things extremely fast in this
Speaker 1: day and age that we live in.
Speaker 3: And so it didn't look like it was successful.
Speaker 1: So then everybody pulled back on like the drive picks,
Speaker 1: like whoa, like they just took too many draft picks away,
Speaker 1: that's the highest and then it kind of reset the market.
Speaker 3: So then in turn, you see.
Speaker 1: How many picks Damian Lillard got drafted for, I mean
Speaker 1: got traded for last year, which was like two first
Speaker 1: round picks, I want to say, plus Drew Holiday, But
Speaker 1: we knew Portland didn't necessarily want Drew Holiday. What they
Speaker 1: wanted was the picks. They didn't flip Drew Holiday for
Speaker 1: some players and some picks. But the market had been reset.
Speaker 1: And now with Michel Bridges, with the mikeel Bridges trade,
Speaker 1: it went right back up to the amount of picks
Speaker 1: that Rudy Goberts traded for strictly due to the success
Speaker 1: that the Minnesota Timberwolves just had. So they go to
Speaker 1: the conference finals, have a tough conference finals, but everybody
Speaker 1: thought for a second, like, yo, this team might win
Speaker 1: the finals. And so we always talk about the copycat league,
Speaker 1: and look at that in an indirect way. You see
Speaker 1: it again, the copycat league. And so the Knicks give
Speaker 1: up a bunch of picks, and what the Knicks essentially
Speaker 1: just did was they pretty much just said they're going
Speaker 1: for it now. And I think Mike hal Bridges is
Speaker 1: one of the better wing players in our league.
Speaker 3: You know, great two way player.
Speaker 1: He defends extremely well, shoot the ball extremely well. I
Speaker 1: thought in Brooklyn the second year, uh, he got caught
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands too much, and I
Speaker 1: don't think that's where he's at his best.
Speaker 3: I think he has the ball and when he has
Speaker 3: the ball, he can make plays.
Speaker 1: But I thought the ball was kind of in his
Speaker 1: hand a bit too much that second year, and I
Speaker 1: thought it hindered his play a little bit.
Speaker 3: Now he'll be.
Speaker 1: Back at his kind of a normal position where you know,
Speaker 1: he catching and shooting. He catching, attacking the close out,
Speaker 1: and I think that best suits him, allows him to
Speaker 1: play his best basketball. We know he can do something
Speaker 1: with the ball, and so it's always good to have
Speaker 1: those skills when you need to get to it. But
Speaker 1: I think he's better suited and more of it, and
Speaker 1: like his role in Phoenix, but out of much higher volume,
Speaker 1: like use him more, use him more within your offense,
Speaker 1: for sure, but just coming down calling for a pick
Speaker 1: and roll every time, I don't think that's where he's
Speaker 1: best suited. How Nonetheless, anyway, the New York Knicks went
Speaker 1: for it, and they just mortgaged off their future, saying
Speaker 1: we got it right now. And that's been a hot
Speaker 1: topic here on the podcast during the playoffs because I
Speaker 1: told y'all, I you know what I thought about the
Speaker 1: New York.
Speaker 3: Knicks, and I've had a bunch of New York Knicks
Speaker 3: fans come.
Speaker 1: Up to me over the last Let's see what has
Speaker 1: been since the New York's Knicks lost.
Speaker 3: Maybe a month.
Speaker 1: Is over the last month, Like you were wrong about
Speaker 1: the I was at a friend's wedding this weekend, actually
Speaker 1: in New York, and the best friend of the groom.
Speaker 3: Since elementary school.
Speaker 1: She's a New York Knick fan, big time New York
Speaker 1: Knicks fan, and we had a little thing back and
Speaker 1: forth for a while. She tried to tell me, like,
Speaker 1: you were wrong about my Knicks. I said, who was wrong?
Speaker 1: And she was like, you were wrong because blah blah
Speaker 1: blah said no, but the Knicks lost in the second round,
Speaker 1: so I was kind of right. And she was like, no,
Speaker 1: such and such got hurt and when og anob.
Speaker 3: Plays were twenty six and six and blah blah blah,
Speaker 3: and this person was hurting. That person was hurt.
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I didn't necessarily say y'all were
Speaker 1: going to be healthy or hurt. I said, I didn't
Speaker 1: think y'all get much further.
Speaker 3: So I was right.
Speaker 1: And she went on this whole thing back and forth
Speaker 1: for a while, and like ultimately she ended up telling
Speaker 1: me I was right, which was true. But anyway always
Speaker 1: brings us, you know, to this discussion. I think Adam
Speaker 1: Mike kel Bridges resigning to oj Nnoby to a five year,
Speaker 1: two hundred and thirteen million dollar contract, I think those
Speaker 1: are great things that makes that team better. And I
Speaker 1: think that team is going to be tough because they're
Speaker 1: going to defend. We know TIMS teams are going to defend.
Speaker 1: They got offensive weapons, but I ultimately don't think that
Speaker 1: team gets over the hump still.
Speaker 3: And so if the team does it gets over the hump,
Speaker 3: say in two years, then everybody in the NBA get
Speaker 3: really in paid like it ain't working. We gotta make.
Speaker 1: Moves, and then it then and then now you're looking
Speaker 1: to trade some of those guys to get some picks
Speaker 1: back in, because you move on to where the Knicks
Speaker 1: were four or five years ago, which was four or
Speaker 1: five years away from being four or five years away.
Speaker 1: And so now the Knicks are in the space where
Speaker 1: they're going for and I respect it. I think you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta go for it at some point. But what
Speaker 1: just happened with the trade was that, you know, if
Speaker 1: this doesn't work in two to three years, the Knicks
Speaker 1: will be rebuilding again because they traded all their picks away,
Speaker 1: and then they'll be trying to like trade those guys
Speaker 1: to get picks back in. And that's kind of how
Speaker 1: it all plays out. And uh, I'm sorry to the
Speaker 1: Knicks fans, but that's how I actually think it's going
Speaker 1: to play out. And I don't think it's any indictment
Speaker 1: to mikel who I think is like like a top
Speaker 1: tier player in the NBA, Like, you know, you got tears,
Speaker 1: but damn good player Jaylen Brunston who's all NBA, Julius
Speaker 1: who has been all NBA, Dante nothing beloved for Dante.
Speaker 3: Og who's a champion.
Speaker 1: It's actually no indictment on any of those guys.
Speaker 3: Like I just don't think that group is good enough
Speaker 3: to be Boston.
Speaker 1: Like, ultimately, you're building a team that you hope can
Speaker 1: be Boston, and I don't think that team is going
Speaker 1: to be Boston. So you got like a year or
Speaker 1: two like the Houston Rockets. I don't know if you'll
Speaker 1: remember the Rockets of all when we was on our run.
Speaker 1: I always talk to you all about them. It's they're
Speaker 1: very interesting. You got like two years and then it's like,
Speaker 1: oh that didn't work in Clint Capella gone like and
Speaker 1: the first Domino fall, and once the first Domino fall,
Speaker 1: that's it. It's going from there. And so that's what
Speaker 1: I kind of think is going to happen.
Speaker 3: That's how I.
Speaker 1: See it plan out. If it don't work, that's exactly
Speaker 1: how it will play out. So you heard it here first. Nonetheless,
Speaker 1: I think those are great moves by the Knicks. I
Speaker 1: just don't think they quite get you over the hump,
Speaker 1: which then you have to say, ah, looking down the road.
Speaker 1: But you know, I get it because if you're the
Speaker 1: front office, you got to swing because if not, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get fired.
Speaker 3: Because we play in this league that only really four
Speaker 3: to five teams want to win.
Speaker 1: Everybody say they want to win, and then a few
Speaker 1: more than the four or five will act like they
Speaker 1: want to win, but the reality is every ya, only
Speaker 1: really four to five teams really want to win a championship.
Speaker 3: Y'all, Like everybody want to win. I don't get that.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take the time on this podcast to
Speaker 1: explain to you what I mean by that. Just know
Speaker 1: only four to five teams want to win per year
Speaker 1: for real, doing everything they can do to win. But
Speaker 1: for some reason, coaches get fired fast like nobody's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: In this league, gms.
Speaker 1: Get fired after they get rid of fire and get
Speaker 1: domn firing the coach a time or two to save
Speaker 1: their own ass. And it saw kind of like smoking
Speaker 1: mirrors because everybody really not trying to win. So if
Speaker 1: a team go to a playoffs a couple of years
Speaker 1: in a row and get to like the second round.
Speaker 3: If they get to like the second round.
Speaker 1: Or first round, exit, second round actually even mixing the
Speaker 1: conference finals here and there, then a year or two later,
Speaker 1: if they don't do the same thing, they get fired.
Speaker 1: But they be getting fired by these these teams that
Speaker 1: don't really want to win.
Speaker 3: And so it's a very interesting in dynamic and the NBA.
Speaker 1: I've just been thinking about this a lot, like why
Speaker 1: so many coaches get fired? Oh, they get fired because
Speaker 1: the GM throw them under the bus to save It's
Speaker 1: all right, Then the GM gonna get fired shortly after that.
Speaker 3: And it's just like this ongoing cycle.
Speaker 1: But you see, like all of these bad teams who
Speaker 1: really don't want the championships be.
Speaker 3: The teams that's firing the coaches. And so.
Speaker 1: In a league where that happens, that's what goes on
Speaker 1: with these teams. Everybody overreacts and it it half as fast.
Speaker 1: So they got two years stay on the clock. New
Speaker 1: York Knicks fans.
Speaker 4: In the next three years, do the New York Knicks
Speaker 4: make it to the NBA Finals?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 2: Or no?
Speaker 3: No? I do not think so. No. Health is important.
Speaker 3: Health is very important.
Speaker 1: And uh, I'll tell you now, I don't want to
Speaker 1: see that team in the regular because they are going
Speaker 1: to be playing harder than nobody's tomorrow.
Speaker 3: I kid you not.
Speaker 1: That team defensively is going by the way.
Speaker 3: Defensively, that team is going to.
Speaker 1: Be tough, like tough, tough, and playing against a team
Speaker 1: like that during the regular season when you really don't
Speaker 1: got time to like prepare and and then you go
Speaker 1: up against that defense, man, it's gonna be hard.
Speaker 3: It's gonna be hard like that.
Speaker 1: They would not shock me if they get a number
Speaker 1: one seed. Number two seed wouldn't shot at all. But ultimately,
Speaker 1: I think when it comes down and winning a championship,
Speaker 1: you have to have guys who can get a bucket
Speaker 1: by any means necessary on anybody. I don't care who
Speaker 1: you who your defensive adjustment is, who you go to.
Speaker 1: That guy gotta be able to get a buck it
Speaker 1: on him in order to carry a team to a championship.
Speaker 1: And like, there guys you can make it tough on
Speaker 1: and so I don't think. So that's just my opinion.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry Knicks fans, I'll be like, you're a hater, Like, no,
Speaker 1: I just got an opinion and that's it. Before we
Speaker 1: get out of here, we're gonna talk top top five picks,
Speaker 1: and no, not top five picks of the NBA drift,
Speaker 1: top five second round picks, that is, because that is
Speaker 1: important before we get out of it. I saw one
Speaker 1: of the funniest things on Twitter. I may start looking
Speaker 1: for these on the show, Kevin Durant. I'm going to
Speaker 1: read it to you because I don't there's no point
Speaker 1: in me butchering it. Kevin Durant. Some dude goes SJ
Speaker 1: Basketball eight. At SJ Basketball eight, says KD so sorry,
Speaker 1: look at what his reputation is now.
Speaker 3: Lol.
Speaker 1: Kad retweets him and go, well, check ball then, And
Speaker 1: I thought that was hilarious because so many fans think
Speaker 1: that they could just do like who are you to
Speaker 1: call Kevin Durant sorry?
Speaker 3: Like the things that fans actually say. It's crazy. So
Speaker 3: I'm gonna start calling you out on this show.
Speaker 1: And by the way, everybody's gonna be like, hey's sensitive,
Speaker 1: Kevin Sister, He responded to casual, but all he said
Speaker 1: was check ball.
Speaker 3: And it's very true.
Speaker 1: By the way, you said, I'm sorry, at least from
Speaker 1: the neighborhood I come from. If you say I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: check up, Like, we don't need to keep talking about it.
Speaker 1: You don't need to say how good, how sorry I am?
Speaker 1: I don't need to say how sorry? Back you check
Speaker 1: out check ball in. I thought that was a hilarious
Speaker 1: tweet that I came across, just for some of these
Speaker 1: fans who'll be talking crazy. So we're gonna start highlighting
Speaker 1: y'all on this show. But let's get into this top
Speaker 1: five pick the uh top five second rounders, my top
Speaker 1: five second round. So I'm gonna give you a list
Speaker 1: of second rounders. You got Joker, Dennis Robin Manu Yours truly,
Speaker 1: Marc Gasol, Tony Cook, Coach, Gilbert Arenas, Paul Mills, South,
Speaker 1: Chris Middleton, Isaiah Thomas, Isaiah Thomas from Washington, not Oh
Speaker 1: Isaiah Thomas, Mo Cheeks, Draymond Green Show Isaiah not that one,
Speaker 1: then come on, Draymond Green Show. Not bad boys, Isaiah Thomas.
Speaker 1: That's a better way of saying my fi Uh, Doc Rivers,
Speaker 1: Jeff Horne, set Jalen Bronson, just to name a few.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I think now Pascal is the end of the first round.
Speaker 1: But yeah, those are some second round picks. So my
Speaker 1: top five my top five Joker obviously, Dennis Rodman, Manu
Speaker 1: Martinsol and yours truly, no question. Yeah, that's that would
Speaker 1: be my top five second round picks. I think Jalen Brunson,
Speaker 1: if he continues to play the way that he's playing,
Speaker 1: I think he has a chance to creep up there.
Speaker 1: But that's my top five right now, signing off yours truly.
Speaker 1: That's a rap from this episode of The Draymond Green Show.
Speaker 1: Congrats to all of those fifty eight guys that got drafted.
Speaker 3: Enjoy it tomorrow. It don't mean shit.
Speaker 1: You gotta go staky, gotta go put your flag in
Speaker 1: the ground, earn your spot because they only care how
Speaker 1: long you get drafted for a day, and then we
Speaker 1: all started on the even playing field and made the
Speaker 1: best man win.
Speaker 3: And I haven't seen some of those top picks not win.
Speaker 1: So don't think it's guaranteed if you're up there because
Speaker 1: you got a Draymond Green coming from a thirty fifth
Speaker 1: pick that won't a spot. So go luck to all
Speaker 1: those guys, Congratulations to them and their families. Is a
Speaker 1: great day, enjoy it, but tomorrow lock in peace.
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